Help! iMac died

[wok]

After 10-years of usage without issues, it appears my iMac has finally died.

Got a ‘glitchy’ looking blue screen, so did a restart…. Nothing. Got stuck in loading. Tried internet recovery mode, then manual recovery mode. Both run but after finishing and loading the OS, again get stuck in the grey loading screen and nothing happens.

Anyone knows much about Macs? I am thinking my main hdd is f-cked, but maybe it is something else?

 

[tiger roach]

Does sound like a likely disc failure.

Cheer up, now you have an excuse to treat yourself to a shiny new up-to-date replacement.

 

[ColourofFire]

After 10-years of usage without issues, it appears my iMac has finally died.

Got a ‘glitchy’ looking blue screen, so did a restart…. Nothing. Got stuck in loading. Tried internet recovery mode, then manual recovery mode. Both run but after finishing and loading the OS, again get stuck in the grey loading screen and nothing happens.

Anyone knows much about Macs? I am thinking my main hdd is f-cked, but maybe it is something else?

Sounds like a fucked HDD yeah. That's quite common after that amount of time, especially if it's still the old spinny disc boi. Is it one of the imacs you can still somewhat reasonably open or not? If so, just pop an ssd in there. If not, I think you can run an external drive as boot disk.

 

[wok]

Sounds like a fucked HDD yeah. That's quite common after that amount of time, especially if it's still the old spinny disc boi. Is it one of the imacs you can still somewhat reasonably open or not? If so, just pop an ssd in there. If not, I think you can run an external drive as boot disk.

Yeah, i can get the front panel off, so I should be able to replace the hd. Unfortunately it means I lose all my stored stuff on it.

 

[ColourofFire]

Yeah, i can get the front panel off, so I should be able to replace the hd. Unfortunately it means I lose all my stored stuff on it.

If it is the HDD that died that stuff is already gone. You could see if a data recovery place can salvage something.

 

[wok]

If it is the HDD that died that stuff is already gone. You could see if a data recovery place can salvage something.

Luckily I backed up my most important stuff on iCloud. Just a hassle having to reinstall all my software. I have a lot of audio plugins for Logic, which means I will have to dig through my emails for all the licences

 

[jrockbridge]

Mojo. HDD failure is a terrible thing. I expect drive failure would be much less common with SSD.

Mac Mini’s are pretty damn powerful these days if you have a good monitor, keyboard and mouse. They can do video and audio production well.

 

[ColourofFire]

Luckily I backed up my most important stuff on iCloud. Just a hassle having to reinstall all my software. I have a lot of audio plugins for Logic, which means I will have to dig through my emails for all the licences

I know your pain, I have a nice portfolio gap around 2010 from my HDD and backup disc dying in the same week... Luckily I had a partial backup of the backup, but still a bunch of stuff missing, and an ongoing project that I had to redo from scratch

 

[wok]

Mojo. HDD failure is a terrible thing. I expect drive failure would be much less common with SSD.

Mac Mini’s are pretty damn powerful these days if you have a good monitor, keyboard and mouse. They can do video and audio production well.

Been thinking about that, but since I get a PC for working at home from my work, I want to be a bit more mobile so going to get an SSD for my iMac and a MacBook so I can do my audio editing anywhere

 

[wok]

I know your pain, I have a nice portfolio gap around 2010 from my HDD and backup disc dying in the same week... Luckily I had a partial backup of the backup, but still a bunch of stuff missing, and an ongoing project that I had to redo from scratch

Man, that sucks. I have religiously been backing up all my work twice ( external drive and Cloud) so at least I haven’t lost any of my work